Posted on 06/03/2014 5:36:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could face up to five years in prison if he is found to be a deserter, but an expert in military prosecutions says a planned inquiry by the Army could just be an attempt to buy time.
Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, said by phone Tuesday that the military may want to wait for temperatures to cool on Capitol Hill and for Army leaders to “get their head wrapped around this situation.”
Military officials told NBC News on Tuesday that they are preparing a high-level inquiry into the personal conduct of Bergdahl, freed over the weekend after five years in Taliban captivity, and into the circumstances of his disappearance.
New witnesses may come forward, but Fidell said the military almost certainly has already spoken to the other people involved.
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They’ll knock it down to 30 days with an ankle bracelet.
They used to shoot them.
As long a it’s five years hanging from a Gallows, I’m good.
Thanks
Valerie
sentence for desertion in time of war is death.
They’ll knock it down to 30 days with an ankle bracelet.
They’ll let him go free if he claims he is “Gender Confused”.
In that case they COULD just cut is d*c off.
Stall, stall, stonewall then stall some more.. There is NO WAY King Obamadullah allows this guy to speak to the media. His true colors are evil, and further public knowledge of that would only worsen criticism of Obamadullah. They’ll come up with all kinds of excuses to keep this dude from microphones.
I think only one soldier was executed in WWII and from what I have read he may have not deserved it. I wonder if anyone has been shot since?
I think this guy deserves it if anyone does.
Make him spend his prison time at Gitmo.
Either way, I doubt anyone is going to send him to prison unless they've got actual video of him planting IEDs.
The fix is in. This guy is going to get a Silver Star, you watch.
“In a declaration released with the records, Denny Argall, the FBI’S public liaison officer, wrote that after the agency searched for responsive records it located one “cross reference” file pertaining to a pending criminal investigation. The FBI would not comment further about the nature of the probe.
The papers revealed that the FBI still considers Hastings’ work highly sensitive; even the title of the case file has been withheld under a FOIA exemption that claims that the information, if disclosed, could interfere with an ongoing law-enforcement investigation.
One of the excerpts in the FBI document is completely redacted and marked “S” (for “secret”) and “Per Army,” under an exemption aimed at protecting national security. Additional redactions were used to protect techniques and procedures for law-enforcement investigations and prosecutions.
The documents revealed that on June 11, 2012, the FBI’s Washington field office opened a file and submitted “unclassified media articles” to it in order “to memorialize controversial reporting by Rolling Stone magazine on June 7, 2012.”
The articles in question included a lengthy investigative report published under Hastings’ byline in Rolling Stone on June 7, 2012 — “America’s Last Prisoner of War” — about 27-year-old U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl’s deployment to the war in Afghanistan and his capture by the Taliban in June 2009. Bergdahl is believed to still be in the custody of the Taliban.”
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/9/fbi-releases-redacteddocumentonmichaelhastings.html
Five years? quite convenient. They will say he already served his five years and let him go free. you watch.
released
One year for each of the terrorists we released
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